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Genetic and antigenic analysis of foot-and-mouth disease virus serotype O responsible for outbreaks in India during 2013

. . Subramaniam S, Mohapatra JK, Das B, Sanyal A, Pattnaik B. . Infect Genet Evol. 2015 Mar;30:59-64. doi: 10.1016/j.meegid.2014.12.009. Epub 2014 Dec 13. Abstract In recent times, majority of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreaks in India are caused by serotype O Ind2001 lineage. The lineage has diverged into four sub-lineages (Ind2001a, b, c and …

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Effects of word length on eye movement control: The evidence from Arabic

. . Paterson KB, Almabruk AA, McGowan VA, White SJ, Jordan TR. . Psychon Bull Rev. 2015 Oct;22(5):1443-50. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0809-4. Abstract The finding that word length plays a fundamental role in determining where and for how long readers fixate within a line of text has been central to the development of sophisticated models of eye …

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Protection conferred by live infectious bronchitis vaccine viruses against variant Middle East IS/885/00-like and IS/1494/06-like isolates in commercial broiler chicks

. . Awad F, Forrester A, Baylis M, Lemiere S, Ganapathy K, Hussien HA, Capua I. . Vet Rec Open. 2015 Sep 9;2(2):e000111. doi: 10.1136/vetreco-2014-000111. 2015. Abstract The ability of the infectious bronchitis H120 (a Massachusetts strain) and CR88 (a 793B strain) live attenuated vaccine viruses to protect from two Middle East infectious bronchitis virus …

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Effect of addition of thermally modified cowpea protein on sensory acceptability and textural properties of wheat bread and sponge cake

. . Campbell L, Euston SR, Ahmed MA. . Food Chem. 2016 Mar 1;194:1230-7. doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2015.09.002. Epub 2015 Sep 2. Abstract This paper investigates the sensory acceptability and textural properties of leavened wheat bread and sponge cake fortified with cow protein isolates that had been denatured and glycated by thermal treatment. Defatted cowpea flour was …

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Microbial Transformations of Selenium Species of Relevance to Bioremediation

. . Eswayah AS, Smith TJ, Gardiner PH. . Appl Environ Microbiol. 2016 Jul 29;82(16):4848-59. doi: 10.1128/AEM.00877-16. Print 2016 Aug 15. Abstract Selenium species, particularly the oxyanions selenite (SeO3 (2-)) and selenate (SeO4 (2-)), are significant pollutants in the environment that leach from rocks and are released by anthropogenic activities. Selenium is also an essential …

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Broadly neutralizing antibodies: An approach to control HIV-1 infection

. . Yaseen MM, Yaseen MM, Alqudah MA. . Int Rev Immunol. 2017 Jan 2;36(1):31-40. doi: 10.1080/08830185.2016.1225301. Epub 2016 Oct 14. Abstract Although available antiretroviral therapy (ART) has changed human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection to a non-fatal chronic disease, the economic burden of lifelong therapy, severe adverse ART effects, daily ART adherence, and emergence of …

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Multivariate assessment of azo dyes’ biological activity parameters

. . Vastag G, Apostolov S, Matijević B, Assaleh F. . J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2018 May 1;1084:141-149. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2018.03.035. Epub 2018 Mar 26. Abstract Lipophilicity as key molecular descriptor of potential biological activity for selected derivatives of azo dyes was determined mathematically, by using relevant software packages and by reversed-phase …

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Documentation and analysis of traumatic injuries in clinical forensic medicine involving structured light three-dimensional surface scanning versus photography

. . Shamata A, Thompson T. . J Forensic Leg Med. 2018 Aug;58:93-100. doi: 10.1016/j.jflm.2018.05.004. Epub 2018 May 10. Abstract Non-contact three-dimensional (3D) surface scanning has been applied in forensic medicine and has been shown to mitigate shortcoming of traditional documentation methods. The aim of this paper is to assess the efficiency of structured light …

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Sex hormones, erectile dysfunction, and psoriasis; a bad friendship!

. . Eltaweel AEAI, Mustafa AI, El-Shimi OS, Algaod FA. . Int J Dermatol. 2018 Dec;57(12):1481-1484. doi: 10.1111/ijd.14178. Epub 2018 Aug 13. Abstract BACKGROUND: Sex hormones may play a major role in psoriasis pathogenesis due to their biological and immunological effects on skin. Psoriasis also has a significant impact on patients’ sexual function and thus …

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Molecular diversity assessment of a world collection of safflower genotypes by SRAP and SCoT molecular markers

. . Golkar P, Mokhtari N. . Physiol Mol Biol Plants. 2018 Nov;24(6):1261-1271. doi: 10.1007/s12298-018-0545-0. Epub 2018 May 10. Abstract Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) is considered as an oil crop that is rich in medicinal and industrial properties. In this study, the genetic diversity of safflower was assessed using 12 polymorphic sequence-related amplified polymorphism (SRAPs) …

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